Archive for May 12th, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-05-12

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower.  DONE.
  • Cat duty.   DONE.

Log

08:00 AM: I’m up. Looks like another gray day out there.

08:05 AM: Read more of the      book overnight; fell asleep somewhere in chapter six.

09:00 AM: Facebooked a while and called [Emmy].  She’s awake and feels somewhat better today.

11:30 AM:  Worked the     project.

12:00 PM: Recorded audio journal episode:  AJE-2010-05-12-11-25.

01:00 PM: Made some minor adjustments to the statistics reporting scripts on all blogs, to get a more concise report of total site usage across all blogs and other pages under the  http://prosaic-expressions.com/ umbrella.

02:25 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   on the DVR.

02:56 PM: Posted the      piece.

04:00 PM: Niece Katie reports that Zoe (the family dog) had four pups.  All are well so far.

04:15 PM: Nap time.

5:00 PM: I’m awake again.

05:15 PM: Facebooked numerous times throughout today.  Details   here.  Discovered several camp counselors I’ve known over the past decade and a half.  Really cool.  :-)

07:00 PM: Watched today’s episode of   Dr. Phil;   titled:   Dying to be Thin.  Now, listening to the Penguins hockey game with [Emmy] on the phone.

08:55 PM: After two periods of play, the Penguins are down 4 to 2.  They could pull it out.

09:50 PM: The Penguins lost the game 5 to 2.  This means that this was their last game until the fall.

11:00 PM: Today’s repeater song:   Life is a Highway   by Rascal Flatts.  I liked the 1992 original by Tom Cochran, and I really love this newer, country version.  It makes me just want to   Get Up and Boogie   and    Get Down Tonight,  though   If You Don’t Know Me By Now,  I guess I’ll be   Dancing In The Dark,  Alone,   All By Myself.   No matter though.  This great song will keep me company.

12:05 AM: Heard from [Dale], an ex coworker from the Dayton years.  So I responded to him with the letter    here.

01:30 AM: iPodded and Facebooked alternately for the past couple of hours.  170 Facebook friends now.  But another day is over.  So I’m off to the sack.  Good night, and see you tomorrow.  Take care.

Tom Hesley

Received Mail and Shipments

  • Weekly coupon mailer.
  • Promo Only’s EADFF music series; the 2010-05-01 issue.
  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance offer.  No thanks.

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Diary Revisions: 2010-05-12

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Documents Added Or Revised Over The Past 24 Hours

Revised Post Count: 22

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Site Stats: 2010-05-12

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

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General Summary
1. Host name prosaic-expressions.com
2. Host URL http://www.prosaic-expressions.com
3. Program start time May 12, 2010 07:11
4. Time of first request Feb 1, 2010 00:01
5. Time of last request May 11, 2010 23:59
6. Time last 7 days lasts until May 12, 2010 07:11
7. Successful server requests 713,136 Requests
8. Successful requests in last 7 days 42,603 Requests
9. Successful requests for pages 457,401 Requests for pages
10. Successful requests for pages in last 7 days 31,074 Requests for pages
11. Failed requests 8,613 Requests
12. Failed requests in last 7 days 437 Requests
13. Distinct files requested 38,504 Files
14. Distinct files requested in last 7 days 10,687 Files
15. Distinct hosts served 4,571 Hosts
16. Distinct hosts served in last 7 days 542 Hosts
17. Unwanted lines in the logfile 6,688 Lines
18. Total data transferred 14.515 GB
19. Total data transferred in last 7 days 1.503 GB

 

Tom Hesley

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Facebook Tid Bits: 2010-05-12

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

11:09 AM: Hey Amanda. Great seeing you here. I hear that you won’t be at camp this summer. Neither will I. But we can keep in touch on Facebook. Congratulations on your graduation. :-)

11:58 AM: To Amanda: We’re going to make our own version of camp here at home by maybe hiking at Rails to Trails, visiting DelGrosso’s park for a day or two, and going swimming at the new pool in this area. We might even roller skate or bowl. But we’ll avoid all those high-calorie foods and the bugs (I was bitten last summer over sixty times by the time the session was over). I think I just need a year or two off. So we may go back eventually, but we’re not sure when.

12:15 PM: A fellow wants to know why he’s still hungry after eating a bowl of cereal and a banana for breakfast.  In fact, I’d eat more animal protein; eggs, beef, pork, Etc. Also too much added sugar in the cereal can make you hungry before you’d expect.

03:25 PM: Yes, in my opinion, Panera is to food as Starbucks is to coffee — excessively expensive. But I still visit occasionally for the bread baguettes and Caesar salads. Not too often though, so as to avoid rewarding them too much by over-paying. Yet Panera Bread is almost always clean and new-looking, and I love those huge, smudge-free windows, crisp white halogen lights, and carpeted floors seen in all their restaurants I’ve visited. They have a trendy, student union-style look that I’m sure is what draws in many current college students, as well as us “old timers,” looking to relive a few of those good old’ days; the over-priced food notwithstanding. Perhaps if you factor in “the experience,” as well as the food, then the price isn’t so bad. I just wouldn’t pay it frequently.

03:37 PM: I went for nearly a decade without a record player; and I missed hearing my collection the entire time, trust me.  So eventually, I broke down and purchased a Technics SL-1200 DJ table with an Ortofon moving coil cartridge.  Not terribly expensive (under $1K), and the sound is spectacular; way better than the Vestax, Dual, Kennwood, and other tables I’ve previously owned.  Perhaps Peter Gabriel would be worth the investment in a decent turntable.  The question is: How big a Gabriel fan are you?

03:40 PM: Sister Jojo’s dog had four puppies today.  Hmmm. Four more mutts under foot. :-)

03:56 PM: We constantly find more ways to utilize the Internet; telephone, hi-res video, equipment monitoring, surveillance, and so on.  Yet as a nation, we’ve been slow to upgrade the supporting network technologies to keep pace.  As a result, the Internet can get very slow at times. Here at home, I find it crawls most annoyingly in the evening.  But it’s much faster during overnight hours, to a few hours past dawn.  Google needs to put gigabit networks in all places; not just Topeka.  That would solve this problem; at least for a little while.  :-)

08:07 PM: I’ve read the blog post and comments [on the Arizona anti-illegal immigration bill] that you suggested on your links list about this law.  So far, nothing malevolent or particularly scary discovered.  I’ll study the law text itself next.  In the meantime though, I’ll point out that at one time, prevailing public opinion favored hanging, lynching, and rampant segregation. Today, it also supports systemic discrimination of many varieties.  So popular majority is not always the best indicator of a law’s righteousness.  Just because many (or even most) favor it, does not make it right.

11:12 PM: The Pens lost. They’re done now. 2000 words today, and wrote some code besides. Read a few tens of pages and took in an hour or two of news; just so I can irritate my politically savvy friends. :-) The family has acquired four new mutts (my sister’s dog had pups), and Mom is walking well on her new, specially-fitted shoes. But at the end of the day, if I hear one more talking head on television say “at the end of the day,” my day will end in a frustrated heap. :-) Aarrgghh! I still want to know how you pronounce that. Aarrgghh!

01:00 AM: Would it be detestably arrogant of me to mark that I LIKE my own posts? Truth be told, if given the choice of reading most others’ prose or mine, …, well, …, well what the heck? I’d rather read mine! :-)

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Diet: 2010-05-12

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

I keep this food diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, with the hope that it decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Today, I consumed the following items:

  • Herbal tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi  throughout the day. 0 calories.
  • 01:00 PM: 4 slices of muenster cheese.  320 calories.
  • 04:00 PM: 1 bowl of Cheerios, raisins, and organic skim milk.  600 calories.
  • 05:00 PM: Candy.  240 calories.
  • 06:30 PM: 1 can of fish steaks.  200 calories.
  • 08:30 PM: 5 slices of Muenster cheese.  400 calories.
  • 11:30 PM: 1/2 cup raisins.  260 calories.

Total calories: 2020.

Tom Hesley

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